Plans to try and bring the global 2026 Gay Games to the Liverpool City Region have been revealed. LCR Pride Foundation intends to bid to host the worldwide sport and cultural event in the area, and is being backed by Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram. The competition takes place every four years with ... Read More...
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A Liverpool theatre company has received a trio of funding boosts for projects across Merseyside over the next four years. Collective Encounters delivers theatre for social change projects in the area’s communities, with an aim of giving a voice to those who are seldom heard and developing participants’ skills. It has been ... Read More...
New Ferry community members are encouraged to take part in a lantern parade marking the anniversary of a devastating blast. The ‘Into the Light’ event aims to ensure those affected by the explosion two years ago have not been forgotten, reminding others that the Wirral town continues to need support. Workshops will ... Read More...
The University of Liverpool is preparing to start work on a £20.5 million Arts and Humanities Centre featuring a 400-seat auditorium. It’s hoped the performance space will ‘sit alongside the UK’s leading concert venues, as well as complementing established city destinations such as the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall’. According to the university, ground ... Read More...
Liverpool city centre’s Churchill Way flyovers are to be demolished after being deemed unfit to carry vehicles or pedestrians. Liverpool City Council has revealed that the two-lane concrete structures, which were closed at the end of September 2018 for detailed inspections, have been found to have significant defects and cannot be ... Read More...
Liverpool City Council is lining up a contractor for the multi-million pound renovation of the city’s former Andrew Carnegie Library. Cabinet members are expected to progress with the appointment of a firm to help transform the vacant Grade II-listed building on Lister Drive into a ‘community hub’. Said to currently be in ... Read More...
Expanding bar, restaurant and music venue operator Mission Mars has purchased Liverpool city centre’s The Hub Alehouse & Kitchen. The restaurant, which occupies the ground and lower ground floors of the Grade II-listed Casartelli Building, will become the chain’s twelfth venue across Manchester and Liverpool. Purchasing the venture from Liverpool restaurant operator ... Read More...
A scheme to “reinvigorate” Toxteth’s Princes Avenue and Road boulevard and include a new cycle path has been approved today (8 February). Liverpool City Council cabinet members have agreed to award the contract for the £4 million project, which is due to start on site in the spring, to nmcn (formerly ... Read More...
Opportunities for the site of the former Liverpool waterfront car park which was destroyed by fire in 2017 are being explored. The ACC Liverpool Group has confirmed it is working with Liverpool City Council on plans now that work is underway on a new parking facility (pictured) at Monarch’s Quay. Contractor Willmott ... Read More...
Pub and restaurant operator Mitchells & Butlers plans to transform a Liverpool city centre building into a new hotel. The firm has put forward proposals to convert the upper floors of the Queens Building in Derby Square, creating accommodation above its All Bar One venue. With a portfolio including the bar chain ... Read More...